Comment by noduerme

Okay. I was gonna respond with something snarky about what a crappy mod he was, or how he was a Saint and you don't deserve to worship at his functional feet. But I'll tell you what he was wrong about: He was, as a leader and a human and a mod, petty. He pied pipered himself into a sweet spot and no one would deny he's a good coder, but there the ego took off and forever left behind a skidmark. The cool exterior, the sense of self-importance, the punching down, above all the love of spreading one's revelatory wisdom to the poor little guy; you can love that sort of thing too much, and he did. Perhaps you weren't here or didn't interact with him directly. In my view he became dismissive and derogatory toward people who worshiped him (like you) once he acquired a small degree of fame.